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## Sutra Kritanga Sutra
**If any one of these five factors is absent, then neither violence nor karmic bondage occurs. There are thirty-two variations of these five factors. The person who commits the first variation is violent, while the remaining thirty-one variations do not involve violence.**
**It is said that violence arises from these five factors: the living being, the knowledge of the living being's existence, the mental state of the killer, the killer's action, and the separation of the victim's life.**
**The question arises: Does an action performed with knowledge (Parijnopacita-jnana) not lead to karmic accumulation or bondage?**
**It is said that the karma that binds from these actions is in an unmanifest form, very subtle or very ordinary. To illustrate this, the Agamkar explains in the latter part of the verse that a person who acts with four types of karma - mental activity (Parijnopacita karma), physical action without knowledge (Avijnopacita karma), actions related to the path of life (Iryapathika karma), and actions in dreams (Swapnanatika karma) - binds karma in a subtle form.**
**Therefore, he is called the doer of those actions, and he experiences the fruit or result of those actions only in a subtle way, because he does not experience them in a full-fledged manner.**
**An example is given: Just as a handful of sand thrown at a wall touches the wall and then scatters, similarly, the above four types of karma are destroyed after a subtle touch. Therefore, due to being touched only subtly, it is said that there is no accumulation of those karmas, but it is not said that they are completely absent.**
**Thus, it can be said that these four karmas are unmanifest, unexpressed, and subtle. The word "khu" used here is conceptual. Therefore, the above four types of karma are unmanifest because their fruit or result is not clearly experienced.**
**Therefore, Avijnopacita and other karmas are sinful in an unmanifest form.**
**Verse 26:**
**There are three causes (Aayana) that lead to sin: attacking a living being directly, sending someone to kill it, and mentally approving of its killing.**
**Translation:**
**There are three causes (Aayana) that lead to sin: attacking a living being directly (Abhikram), sending someone to kill it (Presya), and mentally approving of its killing (Manasa Anujanya).**
**Commentary:**
**It is asked: If the four types of karma mentioned above do not lead to accumulation, then how does karmic accumulation occur? To answer this doubt, it is said that there are three causes (Aayana) that lead to sin. These are: attacking a living being directly (Abhikram), sending someone to kill it (Presya), and mentally approving of its killing (Manasa Anujanya).**
**The first cause (Abhikram) is when a person directly attacks a living being with the intention of killing it. The second cause (Presya) is when a person sends someone to kill a living being. The third cause (Manasa Anujanya) is when a person mentally approves of the killing of a living being.**
**These three causes are the root of sin. They are the actions that lead to the accumulation of negative karma.**